Buddied tree planting. In addition to the carbon offset credits, we plant 4 trees per tonne of CO₂e offset. We are an official partner of Eden: People+Planet (formerly Eden Reforestation Projects), who plant trees to improve livelihoods.

Alongside our tree planting, we also commit to diverting £1 per tonne of CO₂e from every sale to support our free data, tools, and resources. Find out more: Circular Ecology's Scaling Carbon Reductions Initiative (SCRI).

About this Project

Solar cooking offers a completely clean and environmentally friendly method of cooking. Around the world, over 3 billion people are estimated to cook on an open fire. This is not only inefficient, but also contributes to deforestation and is a leading cause of indoor air pollution. Not only is solar cooking clean and emission free, but it saves household money that would have otherwise been spent on fuel. This allows the household to spend more of their income on essentials, clothing, food, medicine, education and more.

Solar cooking carbon offset credits are available to the Gold Standard and Verified Carbon Standard carbon offset schemes.

Gold Standard – Solar Cooking To Support Refugees

The solar cooking for refugees carbon offset project is a Gold Standard project. The project has distributed around 50,000 smoke-free solar cookers across six refugee camps in Darfur.

The CooKit solar cookers vastly improve the livelihoods of refugees. One of the main social benefits of providing solar cooking equipment is the safety of not having to leave the refugee camp to collect increasingly scarce firewood. This task typically falls to women, who would fear for their safety when leaving the refugee camp to collect fuel.

This project provides refugees with the necessary knowledge, materials and training to make their own solar cooking equipment. Due to the climate in middle Africa, the solar cookers can be used for ~330 days per year.

Benefits of these Gold Standard Carbon Credits

There are many wider social, environmental and economic benefits for this project. These include:

• Female empowerment: Improved safety and saving time
• Clean and smoke free cooking: No use of dirty fuels and no smoke produced in the cooking process
• Improved health: Indoor smoke from cooking has been estimated by the  WHO to be responsible for 1.9 million deaths in Africa each and every year
• Reduces conflict: Firewood in the region is increasingly scarce. Avoiding the need of the local wood resource, avoids conflict with the local population
• Reduced deforestation: More than 50% of the local vegetation saved
• Supports education for children

Video: Solar Cooking for Refugees

Benefits Against UN Sustainable Development Goals

This Gold Standard carbon offset project, solar cooking for refugees is aligned with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• UN SDG 1 – No Poverty
• UN SDG 3 – Good health and well-being
• UN SDG 5 – Gender equality
• UN SDG 7 – Affordable and clean energy
• UN SDG 8 – Decent work and economic growth
• UN SDG 13 – Climate action
• UN SDG 16 – Peace, justice and strong institutions

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